Gnads wrote on Dec 7
th, 2022 at 5:52am:
Which is repeating what old line?
I said "threat" of invasion, there was no exaggeration- you grabbed one word out the whole paragraph & misrepresented what was said - that's being selective & dishonest.
You're right. I apologise. I misread your comment.
Quote:PNG was pretty close - so were some of the islands in the Solomons.
PNG, like all Japanese operations was run on shoestring. They lied to themselves that they could sustain two operations - PNG and Guadalcanal simultaneously. Thankfully they never attempted an attack on Australia. I would have been a slaughter for the Japanese. Australia was simply too far from their bases in the north Pacific.
Quote:Take precautions for an "unlikely" event by running away?
Easier than investing in systems which might likely never see use.
Quote:If we are too far away for China to invade why would the hit us with ICBMs?
Very unlikely but as long as we host US bases and forces it is a possibility.
Quote:Soften us up & leave us be? The world is now a small place.... the PRC/CCP have not only set up in the Sth China Sea ... they are angling all through the Pacific ..... buying their way into the Solomons, PNG, Timor Leste ..... and becoming Debt Masters in Africa & Sth America.
They would be able to reach where ever they wanted too.
Doubtful. They lack the ability and the experience. Just like the Japanese. We are simply too far for them to contemplate such an operation. They would have been much better just buying what they want. We would have been more than happy to sell it. They have missed their chance in the regard.
Quote:So the Yanks should have pulled their fleet out of Pearl Harbour? Where to?
What happened there was a lack of intelligence or the ignoring of intelligence.
It got the reluctant Yanks into the war though didn't it?
It still meant that Japan attacked, what ever the cause. The Americans had been patrolling to the North and West for months before hand but they assumed that no one could operate in the Winter months in the North Pacific because they found it too difficult to do so. The Japanese decided otherwise and attacked.
America was reluctant because they were "isolationist". Their experience in Europe had not been good in WWI so they decided they no longer wanted to play so they stayed home. Unfortunately the world came a knockin'.
Quote:And an attack from China isn't going to come from the north?
They're going to come at us from the Antarctic with all their Attack Penguins?
No. Your ignorance is showing again, Gnads. You really do need to educate yourself.
I have tolerated your comments thus far, Gnads. No more. Educate yourself before you make an even bigger fool of yourself. You have twice violated the forum rules and I have allowed your comments through. You are not the moderator. I am.
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